Ornamental textile



S. MILLER.

ORNAMENTAL TEXTILE.

APPLICATION FILED MAR. 25. l9l9- 2 SHEETS-SHEET I.

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S. MILLER.

ORNAMENTAL TEXTILE.

' APPLICATION FILED MAR. 25, l9l9. 1,40 ,20 Patented Feb.14, 1922.

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ORNAMENTAL TEXTILE.

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Specification of Letters Patent. Patented Feb. 14 1922.

Application filed March 25, 1919. 'srial'naaseeee;

To all whom. it may concern.

of the city of New York, in the county of.

New York and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Ornamental Textiles, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to tapestries or ornamental. textiles used for the covering of walls and furniture and forcurtains and hangings, and has for-its main object to provide a method for making textiles of this character which shall successfully imitate the expensive hand made tapestries in which the artistic design is worked in by needle work and made an integral and continuous part of the fabric which is also formed by the needle. I

\nother object is to provide an ornamental textile of this character which shall successfully imitate the laborious and expensive tapestries made by hand, giving substantially the same artistic effect, in that the design seems to the eyefto be worked into and integral and continuous with the fabric. Y

A further: ob ectis to provide an ornamental textile which shall have'these prop erties and yet be inexpensive to make, by reason of economy in time and labor, whereby the finest storied tapestries may be placed in the hands of the average consumer, and yet afford him the same artistic value as the original all needle made tapestries aforementioned.

Other objects and advantages of this in vention will appear from the detailed. description and the features of novelty will be particularly pointed out in the claim.

In the drawing accompanying this specification, and forming a material part thereof,

Fig. 1 is a face view of a piece of ornamental textile made according to my invention;

Fig. 2 is an end elevational view corresponding to Fig. 1; and

Fig. 3 is, a face view of an original all hand-needle made tapestry. It forms no part of the present disclosure but is made part ofthe drawing for the purpose of more clearly explaining the present invention.

Fig. 4.- is a view on an enlarged scale of the background of. my fabric showing the arrangement of-the warp and woof threads;

Fig. 5 is a similar view showing the needle-work superimposed upon the background to make rip-the ornamental design; and i Figs. 6 and 7 are sections on line 6-G and line .7-7 respectively ofFig. 5 showing the arrangement of thepwarp and woof threads of the background, the superimposed colored threadsof the design being shown in section.

Fig. '8 is an enlarged view showing in detail the nature and arrangement of the warp and woof threadsof the background and some of the threads of the design in their relation to the background.

' My invention will be best understood by referring first to Fig. '3 which shows the original tapestry that I have succeeded in successfully imitating. This original tapestry is madeby hand on a piece of canvas or other such material which serves as a background 10 for the needle work. The body of the textile surrounding and bordering the ar tistic design ismadeusually by grospoint? needle work 11' and the artistic design 12 is made by continuing the needle work so as to produce the desired ornamentation. Usually this ornament is produced. by petitpointneedle work 13. The design. 12 is thus practically woven into the fabric being an integral part thereof. Tapestries made in this way give a most artistic effect and have been for years regarded as the finest ornamentation for house decorating purposes. But as willnow be readily understood, to' make them requires a most painful and laborious process, aside, of course. from expertness and great skill. As a result, such tapestries are most expensive and far beyond the reach of the average householder.

In my present invention, I imitate this original hand made tapestry and materially reduce the cost thereof, preferably in the following manner: The fabric or main body 14 of the tapestry is woven on a hand or otherwise operated loom especially adapted .to produce a;gros-point weave 14 to simulate the gros-point needle work 11 of the original tapestry. "This body portion may be woven on the loom in any size and then cut to desired lengths and widths. The woof threads 18 of said body portion Iii are maintained flat in the loom, while the warp threads 19 are passed over and under the alternate woof threads, the result being that the warp threads stand out above the flat woof threads and hide the greater portion of said woof threads from view whereby the fabric is given the appearanceof' work, thus eliminating the canvas 10. I'

prefer to use threads 20 of about the same size, material and general characteristics for the design as it used for the background, said thread being preferably the wide,coarse thread ordinarily used in handmade tap' estry, the superimposed threads for the design being drawn tightly on to the background and stitched closely together preferably by means of the cross stitch shown .to hide said background. By thus drawing the threads down tightly, they appear to an observer as substantially flush? or in the same plane with the back ground, thusgiving the desired effect or simulating or imitating the original hand-made tapestry; In Fig. 2 it will be seen that the design is slightly raised from the body as at 16, and the crossing of the threads of the needle work is shown on the rear of the body at 17 While the design is thus not flush with the body it nevertheless seems to the eye to be a continuous and integral part thereof and looks no different from the original tapestry such as shown in Fig. 8. I have found that to best produce a successful imitation, this main body 14: should be woven from dark material. A combination of black and dark brown proves very effective, and tapestries made according to my inventionon such dark colored gros-point woven backgrounds have actually deceived the eye when placed in juxtaposition to an original piece oftapestry, to such an extent that it could not distinguish the original from the imitation.

'VVhen ornamental textile made according to my invention is used to cover furniture or for the like purposes, the imitation be comes more and more successful as it is used, since the superimposed design is flattened and gradually becomes more nearly flush with the body.

It will be clear that by providing the woven body portion, in the manner set forth, I economize time and labor and reduce the amount of skilled or expert Work required in making the original tapestry, thus reducing the cost considerably and also making it possible to produce in large quantities and at a rapid rate.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent 1 In an ornamental tapestry, a loom-woven background comprising wide coarse woof threads lying substantially in the same plane, and warp threads passing over and under alternate woof threadsv respectively, the part-s of said warp threads passing over said woof threads upstanding above the latter so as to cover substantially the greater part thereof, and ornamental petit-point embroidery comprising close-lying threads of the same coarseness as, and substantially similar to, the threads used in said background superimposed upon said background and drawn tightly down thereon to appear substantially in the same plane as said background.

Signed at New York city, in the county of New York and "State of New York, this 19th day of March, A. D. 1919.

SEAMAN MILLER.

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